Stock-watering device



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Amc. RWM Rm@ amm VAI/l 196 Patented pr. 24, 1923.

g UNITED STATES ROBERT I". misivIUssEN, Or osHKosH; WISCONSIN, AssIGNOR To o. A; LIBBEY or osIIKOsH, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION or WISCONSIN.

1,452,705 PATENT Ormes. y,

CCMlPANm STOCK-WATERING DEVICE.

To @ZZ whom` t4 may concern:

Beit known that I, ROBERT F. ItAsMUssim, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the county of Winnebago and lState of Vis-v consinhave invented new and useful Improvements in Stock-l/Vatering Devices, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawy when operated to open the valve will per-` mit the cattle to have access to the entire bottom of the bowl. n

` A more specific object of this invention is to provide a valve operating pla-te which is movable upwardly and rearwardly away from the bottom of the bowl to open the valve. e

Vith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, my invention resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts substantially as hereinafter described and more particularly defined by the appended claims, it beingv understood ythat such changes in the precise embodiment of the herein disclosed invention may be made as come within the scope `of the claims.

In the accompanying drawing I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention constructed according to the best mode I have so far devised for the of the principles thereof, and in which:

Figure lis a side view of my complete bowl', parts being broken away-and in section to more clearly illustrate its struc-v tural details. f

Figure'2 is a sectional view taken through the bowl support securing means and valve on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken through the valve mechanism on the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

In the drawing, the supply pipe consists of an elbow section 5 having a flange end 6 for clamping engagement with a suitable practical application support 7, a flanged down turned end 8 for y receiving thev valve mechanismyto be ylater described` and an inlet portion for receiving ,the'end' of a water supply pipe 9.

' The `numeral`10 designates a bowl ywhich is detachably connected to the support 7 just below the elbow section 5 by means of a bowl detaching member 11 secured to the support by la clamp. 12 and having spaced upwardears 13 engageable between spaced lugs 14 secured to the rear wall of the bowl, the ears 13 being secured between the lugs 14 by means of ,ay dowel orsplit pin.: 15 passed lthrough laligned aperturesitherein. The bowl is held in its properposition by meansof-a projectionl formed ,onwthe lower endofl the bowl support 11 and projecting between the lugs lateral kmovement of the to the support.

As best shown in Figure 1 the discharge end 8 of the elbow 5 is projected into the bowl 10 and has a valve casing 17 secured thereto by means of bolts 18 which casing has a kvalve mechanism contained therein. 'Ihe casing 17 has a restricted opening 19 in its upper end providing a seat for a valve 2() which has its stem 21 passed downwardly therethrough and provided with an enlarged head or end 22. The valve 20 is' normally held in engagement with its seat by means of an expansile spring 23 coiled about the stem 21 and coniined between the head 22 and shoulder 24 surrounding the vopening 19.y This structure normally maintains the valve 20 in engagement with its seat and means are provided for unseating the valve 20'against the action of spring 23 to permit 14 to prevent the bowl with respect water to be discharged thro-ugh the casing Y 17 into the interior of the bowl.

The means for operating the valve mechanism consists vof a lever 25 having its rear end pivoted as at 26 between ears 27 formed on thecasing 17 which has its walls oppositely recessed as at 28 to permit the lever 25 to be moved upwardly to raise the end 22 and consequently the valve 20. The lever 25 is. adapted to be operated by the cattle by means of a valve operating plate or the like 29 secured to the forward end 80 of the lever 25.

In the bowls now in use it is necessary to 'depress the plate or to swing the plate to of the bowl and does not permit the. cattlel to discharge from said Cp said nozzle being vprovi e to drink as freely. My invention is designed to have theplate 29 moved away from the bottom of the bowl, see dotted lines Figures landA 3, to open the valve. This is accomplished by means-,of the novel structure hereof alined slots; a valve within said nozzle kadapted to controlluid kiow therethrough; and a stock opera-ted valve actuating member provided with a. lever rone end of which member having `a yseat in said nozzle, and a is pivotally secured to said nozzle and an intermediate portion of which is adapted to enter said slots to engage a portion of said valve to open the same.

. 22. In a stock watering device, the combination with a bowl and a supply pipe having a substantially vertical discharge nozzle i arranged to discharge in the bowl and positioned juxtaposed the wall thereof, of' a valve d with a plurality Y valve operating member engageable with the valve member and having its rear end pivotally mounted and adapted, upon movement of its free end away from `the bottom of the bowl to a substantially vertical position against the discharge nozzle, to actuate said valve member and discharge water from the supply pipe into said bowl.

3.v A stock watering device comprising a bowl, a supply pipe, a discharge nozzle secured to the discharge end of the supply pipe` and arranged to discharge in said' bowl, a. 'valve member having a seat in said nozzle, spring means normally yieldingly urging said valve member to engageits seat, a valve stem extended from the valve member, a lever pivoted to the rear wall of said discharge nozzle and adapted to be moved into said discharge nozzle'throughaligned slots in its walls to move the valve stem and unseat the valve member, and a plate secured to said lever. f

In testimony whereof, Iaffix ture.

ROBERT F. RASMUS SEN.

my signa.- 

